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Article ID9
Created On4/22/2008
Modified4/22/2008
Add YouTube Videos to your web site

Adding a YouTube video to your website is an easy process.

  1. The first thing your want to do is select the video you want to add to your web site. Just visit http://www.youtube.com and you can select from a plethora of videos that are available.
  2. Once you have selected a video, you will notice some "code" in a box where it says "Embed" (shown below). Copy this code to your clip-board:




  3. Open up Notepad or any other text editor and paste the contents of the code. What you want is the URL or Link that is embedded in the code. Highlight just the link (looks like what's in yellow) and copy this to your clipboard. Make sure you don't grab the surrounding quotes!


    <object width="425" height="355">
         <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/e4_RLARpE9U&hl=en&rel=0"></param>
         <param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param>
         <embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/e4_RLARpE9U&hl=en&rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed>
    </object>

  4. Login to the administrative pages of your website (http://www.yourdomain.com/admin).
  5. Click on the Site Content button then click on Categories




  6. Select a Category (Categorized Page) you want to edit or add a new one. Once you get to the form, scrolldown to the "Detail Header" editor (also know as the main content).
  7. Look for the Insert / Edit Flash button on the editor and click on it.




  8. You will notice a "Flash Properties" dialog box that pops-up. Paste the Link that you extracted from the YouTube code and paste it into the URL field on the dialog box. Enter "425" on the width and "355" on the height (YouTube defaults). You may have to adjust the size depending on how it looks on your site. Hit "Ok".




  9. Once you hit "Ok", you will see an area that says "Flash". This is where your video will show up after you have saved the Category. Click on the "Save" or "Add" Category button and preview your video!